Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-18
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska ,Jottln1s,

The city council of Plattsmouth has de-
cided to employ Hon. Andrew Rosewater
to make complete maps for grading. paw
ing and sewering the city.
A specimen of brotherly love devel-
oped in West Point last week. Charles
Grumpke had his brother arrested on the
charge of stealing nine bushels of pota.
toes, but failed to convict him.
The report comes from Gordon that
the militia company has disbanded.
The announcement created some excite
ment among settlers IN the vicinity. who
wanted their brogans for cyclone caves.
Two of Creighton's youngsters started
with a load of lumber for point several
miles from the city. Being unable to
handle the team they dumped the load in
the ditch. One of the kids is LAID up
with two broken ribs and the other is sad
and sorrowful.
Fairbury proposes to contribute shape
and tone to the state militia. A number
of amateur warriors are busily engaged
fling the bumps on their ankles 20 give
freedom and action to their understand
ings. They hope to be able to bring
their heels and toes together IN sixty
days ana be mustered in.
A Broken Bow babe, daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Charles Snyder, Illustrated the
destructive tendencies of the infantile
mind last week. Procuring match the
youngster pounded it into flame and
fired her clothes. The frantic mother
picked up the blazing darling and at the
were severely burnt but will recover.
A. Paxton, of Omaha, have pur-
chased of Patrick Monaghan eighty.
Sioux City, on the Nebraska side,
for $175 an acre. The Dakota City
Argus, which reports the sale, states that
the land was purchased for the Union
Pacific.
The dispute over the boundary line of
the Vincent and Young farms in Custer
county is practically settled. Young is
in his grave and Vincent is booked for
degree. 'Tis an old story of ungovern-
able passion, of wilful, devilish deter
mination to secure the ends sought at
any cost. Wives are made widows and
children disgraced and fatherless as a
sacrifice on the altar of dogged per-
versity.
&. j. Lane. agent of the Union Pacific
at Blue Springs, Neb., reports that the
number of cars OF corn handled by his
month was 139; of emigrant mOvables,
six cars; of flour, two cars; of cattle and
hogs, eight cars: and since the 10Th inst,
eighteen cars of stone have been sent
away. The receipts for freight from the
shipments from here amount in round
numbers to $4,000. This certainly
speaks well for Blue Springs and for the
country which supports It, 1t is also
very creditabie for the road that can
in the face of the competition with other
lines. But more especially does it reflect
credit on the local management.
The story of Nebraska City's progress
is romance in figures. The natives
numbering 5000, manage to extract SOL
ace from 100000 home made cigars a
month. One thousand hands are en-
| ployed in forty-tive factories, with a
weekly payroll of $4,000, while the
product for the year ending May /
brought S6,0O0,O0O to the city's Golfers.
81, 100000 year, and bank deposits
| show a community wealth of $15, 900, 900.
| The railroads gathered up $700,000 for
| the year ending May /, while 81 200, 900
of foreign capital found profitable in
vestment in city property during the
same period. The distillery. in ten
months, turned out almost 81 1,O0O, 900
substantial basement for a permanent
| superstructure, and fearlessly invites
comparison from rivals.
Iowa Items.
| Humboldt township, Kossuth county.
voted to extend aid to the Sioux City q
| Northeastern.
A large planning mill belonging to l.. F.
Gardner has been removed from Des
Monies to Omaha.
| A stock company has been organized
| ot Fort nnHnn n az in tho me %
| business on q large scale,
An injunction has been served on the
| treasurer of Lyons county enjoining the
| paying of $1,000 of Lyon county's bonds,
| which includes the whole bonded indebt-
edness of the county.
| A petition to the city council of Du-
buqe has been largely signed asking that
n new gas company be chartered as the
old company persists IN charging $2 30
per thousand feet when q rate of 81 rs
has been offered.
L. N. Hazlett and James Wormley,
| manager and cashier of the American
express Office at Cedar Rapids, have
been bounced for banking on the COM
| pany's funds. Hazlett has about $500 and
| WOrmley about $500, and both have
| skipped.
| In boring well on the old fair ground
| property northwest of Boone, three veins
| of coal were struck, the middle vein
being four and half feet in thickness.
This is regarded as settling the long
| mooted question of the existence of coal
on the high plateau away from the river.
| Dakota.
| Sturgis will try electric lighting.
A directory of Rapid City will be issued
| next month.
| The Farmers mill at Parkston will be
ready for business June |.
The proposition to build a narrow
gauge railroad from Rapid City to
Brownsville is creating considerable ex-
ctement in the towns named.
The farmers in the vicinity of Airing
ton have organized a shipping. associa-
ton with capital stock of Sc, 800 di-
vided INTO shares of $40 each. They eX-
| pect to send l00,0 900 bushels of wheat to
market.
The contract for furnishing the ties,
sleepers, bridge timbers and piles TO be
used in constructing the extension of the
| Elkhorn line north from Rapid City was
| awarded to James g. Wilcoxen.
At a wedding at Washington Springs,
| the squire who performed the ceremony
| is described rs being clothed in all the
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